How many trillionaires are there in the world

Totally normal. Nothing out of order here. Talk of Bezos' potential trillionaire status follows public protests by Amazon employees over their safety as they continue to work during the coronavirus pandemic. On May 1, workers for Amazon and other companies including Instacart held a strike protesting a lack of "adequate protection in the workplace.

The company also hired , new workers to keep up with demand as millions of consumers lean on Amazon to have goods delivered while stuck at home. Earlier this month, Tim Bray, Amazon's vice president and "Distinguished Engineer" at Amazon Web Services, announced he was leaving the company over the firing of executives who spoke out against how workers were treated in their warehouses.

Comparisun predicts that 11 people have a realistic chance to become trillionaires during their lifetimes. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. Of course, it's Bill Gates, provided his monopolistic heart keeps beating for another 20 years or so.

In fact, in the most optimistic of the four scenarios below - which assumes Microsoft shares continue to rise at their historic, nothin'-but-blue-sky rates - Gates will become a trillionaire just five years from now, and a quadrillionaire 1, trillion before he hits retirement age. At this rate - Age 59 If Microsoft can't maintain its remarkable returns, but the value of Mr. In numerals, it's 1,,,, and is also known as 10 to the 12th power.

It's an astronomical figure that is hard to envisage, so put another way for clarity, it's one million million. That's a staggering amount of money for one person to have.